If your business uses a WordPress website (and let’s face it, many do), then plugins are an essential part of making things work: features, performance, security, ease of use. But with great flexibility comes risk. In this article we’ll look at the most common plugin mistakes that businesses make, and more importantly how you can…
The WordPress ecosystem is undergoing significant upheaval, with tensions mounting between Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, and WP Engine, a major hosting provider. This conflict, revolving around trademarks and platform control, has impacted the community by sparking heated debates on open-source principles and commercial interests. This post explores the key issues, detailing how this feud…
The recent forking of the popular Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin into a new version called SCF (Secure Custom Fields) has sent shockwaves through the WordPress community. This development is just one of many consequences stemming from the ongoing legal conflict between WordPress.org and WP Engine, two significant players in the WordPress ecosystem. For WordPress…
